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Tap Osborn
Tap Osborn

New York Times, Friday, July 23, 1993

56-Down : City on the Colorado

Author:
Tap Osborn
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 76, Blocks: 38, Avg Word Len: 4.92, Missing: { F J Q X Z }, Scrabble score: 274 (avg 1.47)
Open Squares: 72, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 4, XRef: 1, Words that never appeared in a previous NYT crossword: 4
Tap Osborn has 111 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 1 Modern Era crossword in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,963
Across
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Build a fortune : AMASS
6
Ceiling : CAP
9
Naïf : BABE
13
Smooth: Mus. : LEGATO
15
Actress Munson : ONA
16
Author Ehrenburg : ILYA
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" ... richer, for ___ ... " : POORER
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Vibrating vipers : RATTLERS
20
Drama category : GREEKTRAGEDY
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Writer Umberto ___ : ECO
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East, in Essen : OST
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Lampware style : TOLE
27
Noted aircraft manufacturer : SOPWITH
29
Yoko ___ : ONO
30
Wheat, to René : BLE
33
Come to terms : CUTADEAL
35
Irrigation contraption : NORIA
37
Once more, in Dogpatch : AGIN
38
Game bird : SNIPE
41
Ratted : SANG
42
Indiana pro hoopster : PACER
44
Grandiose : PALATIAL
46
Forage plant : ERS
47
Pretend : ACT
50
Bitter payback : REVENGE
51
Zeno's "classroom" : STOA
52
Legs Diamond's diamonds : ICE
53
Still : YET
54
Mother of 14 and 40 Down : CLYTEMNESTRA
59
Like most lunch breaks : HOURLONG
60
Impish one : RASCAL
64
College in Mich. : ALMA
65
Ross, for one : SEA
66
Tropical rodent : AGOUTI
67
Euripides work : PLAY
68
Baseball's Roush : EDD
69
Over : ENDED
Down
1
Sight at Zermatt : ALP
2
SE Asia farmer : MEO
3
Back then : AGO
4
Famed marionette maker : SARG
5
Olympian's no-no : STEROID
6
Phellem : CORK
7
Reddish dye : ANATTO
8
Sponsor : PATRON
9
Hull area : BILGE
10
Aweather's antonym : ALEE
11
A W.Va. senator : BYRD
12
Kind of chair : EASY
14
Euripides protagonist : ORESTES
19
Kestrel's catcher : TALON
21
Frome of fiction : ETHAN
22
Sutton's forte : ESCAPE
23
Catamount : COUGAR
24
Science of light : OPTICS
28
Diminish : WANE
30
Fit for Mensa : BRAINY
31
Ad space : LINAGE
32
Aerie dweller : EAGLET
34
Fresh talk : LIP
36
Boniface, in Bologna : OSTE
39
Stein's salon setting : PARIS
40
Sophocles subject : ELECTRA
43
Badger's cousin : RATEL
45
So-so : AVERAGE
48
Having a tuft of soft hairs : COMOSE
49
Like a beach bum : TANNED
51
S.P.C.A. candidate : STRAY
54
Dry up, as lips : CHAP
55
Take it easy : LOLL
56
City on the Colorado : YUMA
57
Zounds! : EGAD
58
"Chacun ___ goût" : ASON
61
Ruminant's food : CUD
62
Ending for consul : ATE
63
Pupil's cover : LID

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 5 appeared only in pre-Shortz puzzles.

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Crosswords published prior to Nov. 21, 1993 are provided by David Steinberg and The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project.

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